Quentin Tarantino: My 10th film will be my last

Quentin Tarantino (seen a tthe 2014 LACMA Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles on Nov. 1) hopes that the 70-mm. format used in 'Hateful Eight' will offer a more cinematic experience than digital filmmaking. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images for LACMA)

Quentin Tarantino says his tenth film will be his last.

Speaking at the American Film Market gathering last week, the 51-year-old director said directing was a young buck's game and that he was attracted to the idea of leaving behind a ten-film canon.

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"I don't believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off," Tarantino told an audience full of distributors at the Santa Monica, Calif., event, according to Deadline.

"I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more," he added. "I do think directing is a young man's game and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie."

The "Pulp Fiction" director's next flick, the western "The Hateful Eight," is due out in the fall of 2015.

Set in the decade after the Civil War, the movie follows a group of strangers who become snowbound while traveling across Wyoming during a harsh winter.

Tarantino has billed it as his eighth film - "I've got two more to go after this," he said at AFM, according to Deadline.

He has also co-directed or guest directed on two Robert Rodriguez projects, "Grindhouse" and "Sin City," and helmed a segment of the 1995 anthology comedy "Four Rooms," along with other TV projects.

Tarantino also said he hoped the movie's 70-mm. format served as an argument against digital filmmaking.

"If we do our jobs right by making this film a 70-mm. event, we will remind people why this is something you can't see on television, and how this is an experience you can't have when you watch movies in your apartment, your man cave or your iPhone or iPad," he said.

"I'm hoping it's going to stop the momentum of the digital stuff, and that people will hopefully go, 'Man, that is going to the movies, and that is worth saving…' " he said.

'The Hateful Eight' is billed as Tarantino's eighth film. He said he will retire after ten. (The Weinstein Company)

After retiring, Tarantino said he planned to spend his time "writing plays and books."